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I follow these ones:
#GeminiProtocol
#GeminiCapsule
#geminispaceand I prefer #smolnet to #smolweb, because Geminispace is not part of the Web.
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The HTTP 'Link' response header can be a way of letting you create small-net type HTML (as a document) without CSS — while letting you add style using CSS, and even change it (without editing the HTML file).
Ex:
Link: <https://example.com/styles.css>; rel=preload; as=style, <https://example.com/styles.css>; rel=stylesheet
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The HTTP 'Link' response header can be a way of letting you create small-net type HTML (as a document) without CSS — while letting you add style using CSS, and even change it (without editing the HTML file).
Ex:
Link: <https://example.com/styles.css>; rel=preload; as=style, <https://example.com/styles.css>; rel=stylesheet
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The HTTP 'Link' response header can be a way of letting you create small-net type HTML (as a document) without CSS — while letting you add style using CSS, and even change it (without editing the HTML file).
Ex:
Link: <https://example.com/styles.css>; rel=preload; as=style, <https://example.com/styles.css>; rel=stylesheet
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The HTTP 'Link' response header can be a way of letting you create small-net type HTML (as a document) without CSS — while letting you add style using CSS, and even change it (without editing the HTML file).
Ex:
Link: <https://example.com/styles.css>; rel=preload; as=style, <https://example.com/styles.css>; rel=stylesheet
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The HTTP 'Link' response header can be a way of letting you create small-net type HTML (as a document) without CSS — while letting you add style using CSS, and even change it (without editing the HTML file).
Ex:
Link: <https://example.com/styles.css>; rel=preload; as=style, <https://example.com/styles.css>; rel=stylesheet
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The Finger Protocol seems to have had an alternative unofficial TCP-port, other than TCP-port 79.
TCP-port 2003
It was used by GNU cfinger.
TCP-port 2003 would not typically require 'root' privileges — in systems that require 'root' privileges for TCP-ports less-than 1024.
#FingerProtocol #Fingerverse #FingerHole #smallNet #smallWeb #smolNet #smolWeb
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The Finger Protocol seems to have had an alternative unofficial TCP-port, other than TCP-port 79.
TCP-port 2003
It was used by GNU cfinger.
TCP-port 2003 would not typically require 'root' privileges — in systems that require 'root' privileges for TCP-ports less-than 1024.
#FingerProtocol #Fingerverse #FingerHole #smallNet #smallWeb #smolNet #smolWeb
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The Finger Protocol seems to have had an alternative unofficial TCP-port, other than TCP-port 79.
TCP-port 2003
It was used by GNU cfinger.
TCP-port 2003 would not typically require 'root' privileges — in systems that require 'root' privileges for TCP-ports less-than 1024.
#FingerProtocol #Fingerverse #FingerHole #smallNet #smallWeb #smolNet #smolWeb
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The Finger Protocol seems to have had an alternative unofficial TCP-port, other than TCP-port 79.
TCP-port 2003
It was used by GNU cfinger.
TCP-port 2003 would not typically require 'root' privileges — in systems that require 'root' privileges for TCP-ports less-than 1024.
#FingerProtocol #Fingerverse #FingerHole #smallNet #smallWeb #smolNet #smolWeb
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The Finger Protocol seems to have had an alternative unofficial TCP-port, other than TCP-port 79.
TCP-port 2003
It was used by GNU cfinger.
TCP-port 2003 would not typically require 'root' privileges — in systems that require 'root' privileges for TCP-ports less-than 1024.
#FingerProtocol #Fingerverse #FingerHole #smallNet #smallWeb #smolNet #smolWeb
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Advice for people on the #smolnet.
I’ve seen far too many people complaining they have no feedback about their writing but I simply cannot reach them!
- Put an email contact in an obvious place. Too often, it feels like a quest to find your email.
- Be sure that your email works. No, seriously. I’ve several cases of server returning an error.
- If you don’t want to receive emails, write it explicitely so I don’t spend my time looking for your address.
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#Pollux server is back online after a power outage!
- gemini://pollux.casa/
- https://pollux.casa/
- https://smolfedi.pollux.casa/
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Si vous voulez soumettre votre site web, blog, curation pour être publié dans l'Internet Phone Book, c'est par ici (sur le bouton jaune):
internetphonebook.net/
Une chouette initiative pour le "Smolnet" et un objet original.
PS: Essayez le "dial-a-site" en bas de page, c'est cool.
#smolnet #smolweb #curation -
Si vous voulez soumettre votre site web, blog, curation pour être publié dans l'Internet Phone Book, c'est par ici (sur le bouton jaune):
internetphonebook.net/
Une chouette initiative pour le "Smolnet" et un objet original.
PS: Essayez le "dial-a-site" en bas de page, c'est cool.
#smolnet #smolweb #curation -
Si vous voulez soumettre votre site web, blog, curation pour être publié dans l'Internet Phone Book, c'est par ici (sur le bouton jaune):
internetphonebook.net/
Une chouette initiative pour le "Smolnet" et un objet original.
PS: Essayez le "dial-a-site" en bas de page, c'est cool.
#smolnet #smolweb #curation -
Si vous voulez soumettre votre site web, blog, curation pour être publié dans l'Internet Phone Book, c'est par ici (sur le bouton jaune):
internetphonebook.net/
Une chouette initiative pour le "Smolnet" et un objet original.
PS: Essayez le "dial-a-site" en bas de page, c'est cool.
#smolnet #smolweb #curation -
Si vous voulez soumettre votre site web, blog, curation pour être publié dans l'Internet Phone Book, c'est par ici (sur le bouton jaune):
internetphonebook.net/
Une chouette initiative pour le "Smolnet" et un objet original.
PS: Essayez le "dial-a-site" en bas de page, c'est cool.
#smolnet #smolweb #curation -
Perhaps one way a small-net browser client could enable people writing HTML to create nicer looking documents (without all the complexities of CSS) is —
By supporting the following attributes on the HTML <body> element:
<body
bgcolor="#141413"
text="#FAF9F5"
link="#FFFFFF"
vlink="#DDDDDD"
alink="#FF0000"
background="stars.png"
bgproperties="fixed"
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Perhaps one way a small-net browser client could enable people writing HTML to create nicer looking documents (without all the complexities of CSS) is —
By supporting the following attributes on the HTML <body> element:
<body
bgcolor="#141413"
text="#FAF9F5"
link="#FFFFFF"
vlink="#DDDDDD"
alink="#FF0000"
background="stars.png"
bgproperties="fixed"
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Perhaps one way a small-net browser client could enable people writing HTML to create nicer looking documents (without all the complexities of CSS) is —
By supporting the following attributes on the HTML <body> element:
<body
bgcolor="#141413"
text="#FAF9F5"
link="#FFFFFF"
vlink="#DDDDDD"
alink="#FF0000"
background="stars.png"
bgproperties="fixed"
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Perhaps one way a small-net browser client could enable people writing HTML to create nicer looking documents (without all the complexities of CSS) is —
By supporting the following attributes on the HTML <body> element:
<body
bgcolor="#141413"
text="#FAF9F5"
link="#FFFFFF"
vlink="#DDDDDD"
alink="#FF0000"
background="stars.png"
bgproperties="fixed"
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Perhaps one way a small-net browser client could enable people writing HTML to create nicer looking documents (without all the complexities of CSS) is —
By supporting the following attributes on the HTML <body> element:
<body
bgcolor="#141413"
text="#FAF9F5"
link="#FFFFFF"
vlink="#DDDDDD"
alink="#FF0000"
background="stars.png"
bgproperties="fixed"
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Places to telnet: A list of telnet servers and fun destinations.
> The text based internet can be exciting, informative, and fun. Using telnet, you can access a variety of these resources on the internet.
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Perhaps a "modernized" small-net / small-web version of XUL that incorporated lessons from spreadsheets —
Would let you "draw" the UI using the box-drawing characters, like from the DOS and Terminal eras.
And then, a small-net /small-web browser / app-runner could render these natively as mobile-phone UIs and desktop-computer UIs.
#GeminiProtocol #MercuryProtocol #SmallNet #SmallWeb #SmolNet #SmolWeb
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Perhaps a "modernized" small-net / small-web version of XUL that incorporated lessons from spreadsheets —
• would provide a grid-first layout (while still allowing for other layouts)
• would support formulas/code in the same place data can go
• would support ways to allow the user to "draw" the UI#GeminiProtocol #MercuryProtocol #SmallNet #SmallWeb #SmolNet #SmolWeb
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What else could a "modernized" small-net / small-web app format learn from?
A LOT of non-programmers create applications using spreadsheets.
What could we learn from them?
#GeminiProtocol #MercuryProtocol #SmallNet #SmallWeb #SmolNet #SmolWeb
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https://mastodon.social/@reiver/116458367287618358
Perhaps a "modernized" small-net / small-web version of XUL —
• would focus on intent
• would be declarative
• would have a simplified syntax (relative to XUL)
• would have high-level UI primitives
• would have reactive data bindings
• would aim for portability
• would be sandboxed by default
• would be adaptive by design#GeminiProtocol #MercuryProtocol #SmallNet #SmallWeb #SmolNet #SmolWeb
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Perhaps a "modernized" small-net / small-web version of XUL —
• would focus on intent
• would be declarative
• would have a simplified syntax (relative to XUL)
• would have high-level UI primitives
• would have reactive data bindings
• would aim for portability
• would be sandboxed by default
• would be adaptive by designhttps://mastodon.social/@reiver/116458395826470481
#GeminiProtocol #MercuryProtocol #SmallNet #SmallWeb #SmolNet #SmolWeb
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We've had different application formats over the decades. There may be things we could learn from them.
For example, decades ago there was XUL.
(XUL used to power Boxee, ChatZilla, Firefox, Komodo, Miro, Netscape, Songbird, Thunderbird, etc)
If we were to create a "modernized" small-net / small-web version of XUL, how might that look like?
#GeminiProtocol #MercuryProtocol #SmallNet #SmallWeb #SmolNet #SmolWeb
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If the document formats of the small-net / small-web communities (currently) are GemText, Markdown, a sub-set of HTML, and text, then —
What might a small-net / small-web app format look like?
https://mastodon.social/@reiver/116458112950739729
#GeminiProtocol #MercuryProtocol #SmallNet #SmallWeb #SmolNet #SmolWeb
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At least as of the current date — the small-net / small-web communities have focused a lot on document formats
Which is great!
(Although I think people should try stuff that doesn't look like GemText & Markdown)
But, there hasn't been much effort to create app formats
I think a risk is, if we don't create app formats too, people will start trying to use document formats as app formats — just like what happened with HTML
#GeminiProtocol #MercuryProtocol #SmallNet #SmallWeb #SmolNet #SmolWeb
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The point of small-net / small-web isn’t about plain-looking documents — you should still be able to make them look good.
One of the goals is to separate document formats from app formats, so they aren't at odds — and through it try to eliminate the kinds of abuses seen on the Web today.
Some have chosen GemText or Markdown as that document format. Other use a subset of HTML.
#GeminiProtocol #MercuryProtocol #SmallNet #SmallWeb #SmolNet #SmolWeb
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There are good reasons why HTML became the dominant front-end format in the late 1990s.
Before that, developers had to build separate native apps for platforms like DOS, Mac OS, MS Windows, NeWS, X Windows, etc
Not only was this expensive, it was tiring.
As the internet spread, HTML became the ubiquitous front-end format, eliminating the need for multiple versions
But, this put these 2 use-cases (doc vs app) at odds
#GeminiProtocol #MercuryProtocol #SmallNet #SmallWeb #SmolNet #SmolWeb
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HTML used to (mostly) be a format for reading and writing documents.
As time went on, it got changed to an application format.
These 2 use-cases (doc vs app) are at odds.
One of the motivations in the small-net / small-web space is to take HTML back to its document format roots. Although some have have chosen to use alternative document formats such as Gemini's GemText and Markdown.
@talon
RE: https://dragonscave.space/@talon/116456716105999739#GeminiProtocol #MercuryProtocol #SmallNet #SmallWeb #SmolNet #SmolWeb
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An example of viewing an image file using my small-net browser client named: SpaceMonkey.
It is made for GNOME. And, runs on both a Linux based mobile phone and the desktop.
It can view image files using any protocol SpaceMonkey supports: Gemini, HTTP, HTTPS, Mercury, etc.
#GeminiProtocol #GNOME #MercuryProtocol #SmallNet #SmallWeb #SmolNet #SmolWeb #SpaceMonkey
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An example of viewing a GemText page over the Gemini Protocol using my small-net browser client named: SpaceMonkey.
It is made for GNOME. And, runs on both a Linux based mobile phone and the desktop.
#GeminiProtocol #GNOME #MercuryProtocol #SmallNet #SmallWeb #SmolNet #SmolWeb #SpaceMonkey
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An example of the viewing a GemText page over the Mercury Protocol using my small-net browser client named: SpaceMonkey.
It is made for GNOME. And, runs on both a Linux based mobile phone and the desktop.
#GeminiProtocol #GNOME #MercuryProtocol #SmallNet #SmallWeb #SmolNet #SmolWeb #SpaceMonkey
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I spent the day (off and on) working on updating my Mercury Protocol implemention, in the Go programming-language (golang)
(The Mercury Protocol is the Gemini Protocol without the TLS.)
I wrote it back in 2021. The Go programming-language has changed since then. I updated it accordingly, and did a number of to-do items I planned to do but never got around to.
#GeminiProtocol #golang #MercuryProtocol #SmallNet #SmallWeb #SmolNet #SmolWeb
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Here's a cool little #Gopher URL, where you can publish thoughts:
Note: pressing the <Enter> key will submit your text.
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Where In The World? • Puzzle #1339 • 2026-03-31
✅✅✅❌❌↘️
✅✅✅✅❌↙️
✅✅✅✅❌⬇️
✅✅✅✅✅🎉
gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/witw.cgi/game/1339/
#smolweb #gemini #geminispace #smallweb #smolnet #games #geography #maps -
OK, donc, résumons mon exploration du #smolnet avec Lagrange, aujourd’hui : 🧵
1. Parmi les liens que j’ai ouverts et parcourus figure cette page :
https://manualdousuario.net/en/links-of-the-day-20260326/2. Dans celle-ci, se trouve ce lien vers une page où un homme a recréé la police de caractères utilisée sur les ordis du film “WarGames” (1983, mon film préféré depuis mon enfance) :
https://mw.rat.bz/wgterm/ -
Päivittelin kotisivun linkkilistauksia ja lisäsin sinne muiden mukana linkin tähän Gemini-nettiä esittelevään kirjoitukseen:
https://www.nicfab.eu/en/posts/gemini-protocol/
On siellä paljon muutakin parhautta mitä ihmetellä: https://sampsa.fun/linkit/linkit.html
